Building Resilient Supply Chains for 2026

Our Capital Markets Group concentrates on guaranteeing the long-lasting competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are professionals from across the capital markets and noting ecosystem and interested parties, with senior practitioners from the buy side, offer side, intermediaries, and market bodies. The group brings together these voices to reflect the cross-industry nature of the financial and related expert services market's role in this community.

Identifying political, policy and regulatory wins that can support the ambitions of the group. Recommending and supporting wider TheCityUK activity to affect the policy and regulative environment, the media environment, market individuals, and to drive action on effective services. Guaranteeing that varied cross-industry viewpoints are reflected in the group's outputs, and TheCityUK policy positions, outputs, and advocacy activities.

To learn more about the work of the Capital Markets Group please contact us.

The research, conducted by EY, is based upon comprehensive quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and studies of market individuals: consisting of business founders, leaders of pre-IPO companies, leaders of publicly traded companies, investors, advisers, financial investment supervisors, and infrastructure suppliers. The report can be downloaded below.

This report deals with the urgent need for the UK to press ahead with the digital improvement of its capital markets. This is fundamental to the long term global competitiveness of the UK as an international financial centre, and to its capital markets essential enabling function of supplying the capital required to drive investment and sustainable development, underpinning the jobs, pensions, financial investments and cost savings of UK residents.

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Will Digital Innovation Scale UK ROI?

Given the essential function of FMIs to the total monetary industry, fast digitalisation would provide huge potential to unlock the growth of capital markets and the wider economy. While the UK has actually taken positive actions to motivate a regulative environment that supports financial markets digitalisation, and momentum is constructing for tokenisation, it is lagging behind markets such as France, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore when it comes to digital bond issuance.

The report sets out concrete actions for the federal government, regulators and industry to take forward in the near and medium term to maintain the UK's status as a world-leading global monetary centre and support the government's development mission.

Possibly the most exciting advancement is the growing recognition that retail involvement is not an optional additional, however a necessity for lively, resilient markets. The new framework enables innovations, in specific the launch of Gain access to Bonds, which will permit private investors to buy bonds in denominations as small as 1.

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Optimizing IT Transformation for British Success

At Barclays, we have actually long advocated for exactly this sort of change using our combined experience as a consultant to corporates releasing bonds, our function supporting the placement of those issuances and our position as a company of retail financier solutions and wealth management advice and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to individual savers can deepen liquidity, strengthen cost discovery, and assist homes develop more diverse portfolios.

It is my belief that the reforms announced today bring us much closer to that aspiration.

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Navigating UK Trade Trends for 2026

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